Alex
@wardcore.bsky.social
Young father. Game Designer @ Bluetwelve Studio. Worked on Stray. Moi aussi j'suis riche, j'ai plein de yahourt mais faut les manger vite
experimenting with a new enemy in City of None with @liamberry.ca (haven't done the creature art yet, not sure what it's gonna look like)
This is an old project of mine, but still one of the funniest. You can pet the cat at: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=52894 It can never be satisfied! #pico8 #indiegame #cat
Pixel art depictions of Interstate 10 in NORCO.
Pentiment is one of the greatest works of art ever made. Kicking myself for taking this long to sit down and play it. Shout out Josh Sawyer.
from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee
A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
Samuel Horti@samuelhorti.bsky.social · 8mo agoI had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
Incredible quote from Team Cherry. Can't believe they make games like this
![It's a famous quote from Kurt Vonnegut about computers. It goes: "I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I’d never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterwards I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this woman named Carol out in Woodstock and say, “Are you still doing typing?” Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat back and forth, and I say, “OK, I’ll send you the pages.”
Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, “Where are you going?” I say, “Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.” And she says, “You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.” So I go down the steps here, and I go out to this newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line because there are people buying candy and all that sort of thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter has a jewel between her eyes, and when it’s my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my envelope and seal it up and go to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and 2nd Avenue, where I’m secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I address the envelope to Carol in Woodstock. I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post office, and I go home. And I’ve had a hell of a good time. And I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.
Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We’re dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something. [Gets up and dances a jig.]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:flstla3vf27s7vpb4xeipci5/bafkreiaz4vttzwz5ev3lpzblti3ihwmnkxhagtqldl2kpx2kpdwmei7wqa)
Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
Will Weldon@oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 12mo agoCan't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to
Consume Me just got delisted in a wave of delistings on itchio. It's a semi-autographical game about disordered eating. It won the grand prize at the most recent IGF awards. When storefronts start mass bannings, everything is threatened.
"You say you only used AI for placeholder text, but in that text was a response from the AI saying 'here's a revised version'. Here's what I don't understand - why revise placeholder text? You see my problem? It just doesn't make sense to me. Why revise something nobody was meant to see, unless..."
This comes up in many of my talks (and videos). Regurgitating or reacting to even the most mundane of player actions through NPCs and related gameplay systems is a small but easy win in game design. It helps players feel engaged as the game acknowledges your presence.
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou@kanaratron.bsky.social · last yr.I absolutely LOVE IT when games do this reactive shit.
Liste des rassemblements aujourd'hui partout en France pour la libération de la flottille de la liberté : lafranceinsoumise.fr/2025/06/09/r... 18h place de l'Hôtel de Ville pour #LeHavre #flottilledelaliberté #Gaza #FreePalestine #Gazaflotilla #Palestine
Our Peabody speech for 1000xRESIST. “This art form is barely unearthed. It’s too early to define it. Fund the indescribable.”
sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now!@sunsetvisitor.studio · last yr.surreal, so hekki surreal
one of the hard parts of being a game designer parent is seeing poor game design and staying in my fucking lane. “this local egg hunt requires toddlers to complete a 16-step scavenger hunt to get a goodie bag! wait why are all the kids crying in front of the prize table?” i am staying SO quiet rn
I just finished 1000xResist... what a beautiful, surprising and melancholic game. I will think about it for a long time
Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
I recently finished Metal Gear Rising Revengance and wow that game is cool ! The dialogues + the gameplay are the most insane I've ever experienced in a videogame
I think the most basic freedom that all of us can have at any time is not to become the people the ruling class wants us to be: self-centered, incurious, petty, racist, paranoid, uninterested in anything but consumption and not being asked to think about anything that matters.
Si vous utilisez Chat GPT, Grok, Midjourney, Gemini et autres IA gen, voilà une liste non exhaustive de conséquences : (A envoyer aux gens qui ont participé notamment à la trend Ghibli 🤭)